Corruption in American Politics and LifeDodd, Mead, 1910 - 309 sider |
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Side 6
... least as old as Plato . In the " Laws " it is put as follows : " Acquisitions which come from sources which are just and unjust indifferently are more than double those which come from just sources only . " With the true Greek contempt ...
... least as old as Plato . In the " Laws " it is put as follows : " Acquisitions which come from sources which are just and unjust indifferently are more than double those which come from just sources only . " With the true Greek contempt ...
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... least , may reduce its profits and the value of its securities very materially . The agitation for muni- cipal ownership is a case in point . Quite apart from the logical weight of the arguments advanced in support of this policy ...
... least , may reduce its profits and the value of its securities very materially . The agitation for muni- cipal ownership is a case in point . Quite apart from the logical weight of the arguments advanced in support of this policy ...
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... least an intelligent appreciation on their part of the risks they ran in pursuing crooked courses would serve as sufficient deterrent . It is your stupid and incapable official ordinarily who , because of moral insensibility or in order ...
... least an intelligent appreciation on their part of the risks they ran in pursuing crooked courses would serve as sufficient deterrent . It is your stupid and incapable official ordinarily who , because of moral insensibility or in order ...
Side 21
... least . If the danger of class war were real but not imminent a thoroughgoing policy directed to the establishment of social justice and the elimina- tion of public abuses would be imperative . Among other things , better education ...
... least . If the danger of class war were real but not imminent a thoroughgoing policy directed to the establishment of social justice and the elimina- tion of public abuses would be imperative . Among other things , better education ...
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... least in introducing a new in- cumbent who brings with him new methods and new groups of favourites . The net result is far from guaranteeing that certainty and stability which both business and public interests demand . Even assuming ...
... least in introducing a new in- cumbent who brings with him new methods and new groups of favourites . The net result is far from guaranteeing that certainty and stability which both business and public interests demand . Even assuming ...
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Side 123 - Correspondingly, he advances the honor of his profession and the best interests of his client when he renders service or gives advice tending to impress upon the client and his undertaking exact compliance with the strictest principles of moral law.
Side 213 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some particular principle, in which they are all agreed.
Side 221 - The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money.
Side 125 - I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "independent press." We are tools, and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, all are the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.— John Swinton.
Side 232 - If I am elected President I shall urge upon Congress, with every hope of success, that a law be passed requiring a filing in a federal office of a statement of the contributions received by committees and candidates in elections for members of Congress, and in such other elections as are constitutionally within the control of Congress.
Side 120 - Jerusalem with iniquity: the heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say, "Is not the Lord among us? none evil can come upon us.
Side 102 - Let your reforms for a moment go ! Look to your butts, and take good aims ! Better a rotten borough or so Than a rotten fleet and a city in flames...
Side 136 - Neighbours, of familiar acquaintance, as having the Faculty of discoursing readily, and plausibly, seem wiser and better learned in cases of Law, and Conscience, than themselves. And the Divines, and such others as make shew...
Side 231 - political committee" under the provisions of this act shall include the national committees of all political parties and the national Congressional campaign committees of all political parties and all committees, associations, or organizations which shall in two or more States influence the result or attempt to influence the result of an election at which Representatives In Congress are to be elected.
Side 232 - I urgently recommend to Congress that a law be passed requiring that candidates in elections of Members of the House of Representatives, and committees in charge of their candidacy and campaign, file in a proper office of the United States Government a statement of the contributions received and of the expenditures incurred in the campaign for such elections, and that similar legislation be enacted in respect to all other elections which are constitutionally within the control of Congress.